My Dead Husband Just Got A Va Letter In The Mail

[Berta]

My husband just got a letter from the VA.

Although he has been dead for over 20 years, they said they received his January 6, 2012 NOD and asked him for more information for his claim.

He has 30 days in which to reply. and they even attached a I-9.

Any suggestions as to how he should reply to them?????

He is 6 foot under at the Bath NY VA National Cemetery in the cremains section. with no internet service or a PC,or phone.

( YIPPEE ...the one good thing is that the Director of Buffalo (in what is obviously another snafu) gave me another victory today ----Thursday by phone and also in email she sent to me, (documented proof I sent to the IG) she had tried to manipulate my January 6, 2012 NOD date to be established as filed on April 2015.and I contacted the IG Thursday when she hung up, and sent her, Sec MCdonald, ,Allison Hickey , and Jeff Henderson . (VACO) a copy of my IG hotline complaint as to this manipulation of data by a senior VA official)

My dear husband must be spinning in his grave at all this crap.

[Buck52]

I'd email Bob About his....plum ridiculous!

Please HELP me with this Big Problem I'm having with your staff of Government Employees' especially the Buffalo RO Director.

Thank you so Kindly

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[Berta]

Sec Bob has never responded to my emails.Maybe because I am not a veteran.

But I CC him in on Everything I send to the Buffalo Director and to the IG.and to Ms Hickey and everyone else.

Hey maybe my husband should apply for a higher SMC level?

or surely he might be granted the clothing allowance, he has been interred for over 20 years.

oh thats right, he was cremated.no clothes

I got in a little trouble when the VA ignored my evidence for my first DIC claim.1996.

The C & P doc ended his report in the SOC that my husband probably died of a cocaine overdose. My husband was completely drug and alcohol free. There was absolutely no evidence for that terrible statement.

I called the C & P doc and he read his report over the phone and sent it to me, because the VA forgot to add, his last words in the exam "which could have been ruled out by autopsy and toxicology."

As an organ donor my husband had a full autopsy and toxicology...the only drugs in his system were the ones the VA admitted contributed to his death ( 1151 HBP claim I won about a month ago.)

That doctor was really pissed because he realized VA withheld the autopsy stuff from him so he would write up something to deny the claim.

I was so pissed off I sent them , along with a NOD, as evidence, a plastic baggy containing some of my husband's ashes.

The funeral director gave me some and they buried the rest at Bath VA.

I heard that really caused a big commotion at my VARO when they opened the priority mail packet I sent.

2 RO employes had to escort the cremains back to Bath VA where I picked them up.

Sometimes we must take extraordinary steps to get those idiots to read our evidence.

Edited August 1, 2015 by Berta

[pwrslm]

FTCA is not limited to medical malpractice. The emotional roller coaster you have been on fighting for your rights because of what they did to your husband just might be compensable, certainly such a huge bureaucracy cannot comprehend the anxiety and depression that they put you through.

Just the fact that laws were broken in the processing of this whole she-bang should be sufficient for a crack lawyer to think about the damages you should be paid for the torts you have endured through the incompetence and malicious behavior you have been subjected to.

Edited August 2, 2015 by pwrslm

[lotzaspotz]

Berta, did you send a copy of the letter addressed to your late husband to the VA officials you listed, since it's got the correct NOD date vs. the trumped up more recent date?

[Pete53]

I am shocked that it has been that long. I used to chat with Rod on Prodigy. I hope that I did not misremember his name.

[Andyman73]

Berta,

I'm going to go out on a limb here, but, maybe, what if....your husband replies with smoke signals? Or maybe one of those massive Swiss Alp horns? Or Morse code via telegraph?

Have you ever considered contacting a Barbara Walter's type journalist for a nice expose of what the VA has been putting you through?

Semper Fi.

Andy